Experience Sharing on

Outcome-based curriculum & Criterion-referenced assessment Conrad Tang Program Leader BSc(Hons) in Geomatics 1

LSGI  re-wrote program document in 2005 adopting the Outcome-based-curriculum  1 st year of practice 2005 2006 2

Experience sharing  Dr Janet Nichol Remote Sensing  Dr Bruce King  Dr Conrad Tang - Photogrammetry - Cadastral Survey 3

Dr Janet Nichol  Assessment mode before Sept 2005  Pass of Continuous Assessment   AND Pass of Examination 4

Dr Janet Nichol  Criterion-referenced assessment mode after Sept 2005  Overall performance 5

A little anomaly  A couple of students who did have very good marks in continuous assessment  but  suddenly performed badly in Examination 6

Discussion in the department  If Passing grade for both Continuous Assessment & Exam are still needed:  At the discretion of the subject lecturer  Need to inform students about the assessment scheme in term-start 7

Some thoughts on Outcome Oriented assessment by

Dr Bruce King LSGI 8

Initial reaction  Unknowingly have been doing it all along  Provide students with clear instructions and assessment guidelines for     Assignments Practical work Tests Exams 9

Initial reaction     Provide students with detailed constructive feedback on each of these Encourage knowing understanding rather than Reinforce linkage of my subjects with others students have studied Grade with respect to overall standards, not normalised distribution 10

Upon reflection    No significant change compared to how classes used to be assessed Find using grading rubrics tedious and not all that constructive compared to detailed written feedback on continuous assessment items Need to develop more meaningful (to me and students) criteria that fits with achievement measures (CTTDI, Blooms Taxonomy etc.) 11

Some feedbacks on Outcome based curriculum

Dr Conrad Tang LSGI 12

Outcome based curriculum

 Purpose : Make sure the students learn!

 And thus use it as an measurement of teaching result – fair enough!

 We, “ learned colleagues ” , of course can do it ; but there is a cost.

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Outcome based curriculum  To make sure the students learn!

 Itemize the learning goals in each lecture  Reiterate and “ test ” of the lecture them at the end 14

Outcome of Outcome based curriculum in my lecture  Successful in making students knowing key points  Cannot ensure all students could make synthesis and analysis 15

Outcome based curriculum  Should we assume students are willing to learn ?  And, if they seem not interested to learn – like it or not – it becomes our fault.  The industry / employer complains! (and thus we have this meeting ) 16

Student learning motives  One new assessment method under the Criterion-referenced assessment scheme seems encouraging:  Interview by Professionals :  Panel members from the professional institute and industry 17

Interview by professionals

 Adopted from http://www.german-business-etiquette.com/ 18

Thank you !

New Program; New operation modes We are building the foundation of the Geomatics program, brick by brick ...

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